A Resque plugin. If you want to be able to add metadata for a job to track anything you want, extend it with this module. For example: require 'resque-meta' class MyJob extend Resque::Plugins::Meta def self.perform(meta_id, *args) heavy_lifting end end meta0 = MyJob.enqueue('stuff') meta0.enqueued_at # => 'Wed May 19 13:42:41 -0600 2010' meta0.meta_id # => '03c9e1a045ad012dd20500264a19273c' meta0['foo'] = 'bar' # => 'bar' meta0.save # later meta1 = MyJob.get_meta('03c9e1a045ad012dd20500264a19273c') meta1.job_class # => MyJob meta1.enqueued_at # => 'Wed May 19 13:42:41 -0600 2010' meta1['foo'] # => 'bar'